Congress and U.S. Intelligence Agencies

MIchael Allen talked about the CIA’s alleged searches of a congressional computer system. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a March 11, 2014, Senate floor speech said the CIA had improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress as part of its investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a George Bush-era detention and interrogation program. Mr. Allen, former majority staff director of House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, described the congressional oversight process of intelligence and surveillance agencies.

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*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.